But once it got set up at the early stages at Netflix, what was your involvement there? Did you get to help choose Eric as the show runner and meet with other potential show runners?īARDUGO: (Laughs) Well, it was a love at first sight situation, because Eric had Tweeted about Six of Crows long ago when he was reading it for the first time. And then obviously seeing how they've shepherded Stranger Things and tons of other adaptations and non-adaptations. That's probably very reassuring to hear once you get there. And it wasn't until we sat down with Netflix, and they really started talking about story and how much they valued the stories of young people, that I felt like, okay, maybe we're in the right place. It sometimes feels like people haven't read the books, but want to talk about things like franchises, and even amusement parks. And it's a very weird process when you're an outsider in Hollywood, these meetings are very confusing. And by that time, when the option came up again, I had then written Six of Crows, and we were taking meetings for both series. So, the project was essentially orphaned. And then as so often happens in Hollywood, the executive who had brought it in and shepherded it left to work for another studio. LEIGH BARDUGO: Well, we did first sell the option to the original trilogy to DreamWorks in 2012. How long did it take to finally bring an adaptation to fruition? Were there other versions in the works, years ago? It’s a wide-ranging and insightful interview with the mind behind the entire Shadow and Bone world. RELATED: 'Shadow and Bone' Showrunner Eric Heisserer on the Darkling, Season 2 Hopes, and Why There's Not More KissingĪnd last but not least, I asked Bardugo why there's not more kissing in the first season of the series. The result is a wildly entertaining and thrilling first season, with the story still closely following the events of Shadow and Bone but also bringing in the Six of Crows characters as their own little sexy heist trio, thieving away and sneaking around while Alina and the Darkling navigate their power dynamic. The Six of Crows duology ended up being wildly popular thanks to its central trio of charming characters – Kaz, Inej, and Jesper – so Bardugo was delighted when Eric Heisserer, the showrunner bringing Shadow and Bone to the screen for Netflix, felt strongly that the Six of Crows characters should be brought into the first season of this series adaptation. That trilogy focused intensely on “Grisha” or magically gifted people populating the universe that Bardugo created, which is why in 2015 she published Six of Crows, which takes place years after the events of Shadow and Bone and focuses on a cadre of non-Grisha characters inhabiting the same universe. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha… and the secrets of her heart.Bardugo’s first foray into the aforementioned Grishaverse was the Shadow and Bone trilogy, which focuses on the character of Alina Starkov and follows a “chosen one” narrative as she’s revealed to be a saintly “sun summoner” who can potentially heal a divided nation in Bardugo’s fictional world. Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life-a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.Īlina Starkov has never been good at anything. Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Published June 5th 2012 by Henry Holt & Company
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